[Bug bootstrap/48135] build fails on Solaris2.8 due to Glob.pm not found within /usr/perl5

[Denis.Excoffier at airbus dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48135

--- Comment #14 from Denis Excoffier <Denis.Excoffier at airbus dot com> 2011-03-17 15:48:20 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> I see, but on the other hand this will be a fairly uncommon undertaking.
You must know that the process is highly automatized, and, most importantly,
that it is shared with several other (and more useful) environments, including
Solaris10, Linux, cygwin and darwin ppc (by the way, up to now, only darwin
has failed to build 4.6.0-RC, i think it is due to obscure altivec reasons).

> Btw., what's your reason to still be running Solaris 8?  I'm the Solaris
> GCC maintainer and seriously consider to deprecate it for GCC 4.7.
Here we still have many Solaris8's working, with support from Sun/Oracle up to
March 2012
(http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-os-337182.pdf).
You will not be blamed if GCC support is discontinued (ie
removed) after that. Deprecation is ok for GCC 4.7.

> > I would have to also find a working binary perl, no big deal but if we can
> > avoid that using a few sed commands, that's perfect.
> Certainly not: either I can make make_sunver.pl work with the core perl
> glob, or the --disable-symver option will be made to work properly.
It would be bad use of your time if you do this only for me. On the other hand,
i successfully built 4.6.0-RC on Solaris 10, but only after having performed
sed -e 's|complex\.h|nonexistent&|g' inside the file mpc/configure installed
in the source tree (from mpc-0.9.tar.gz).

Perhaps only a short sentence in "Host/target specific installation notes"
is enough.